Re: git push (mis ?)behavior

From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Oct 3, 2007, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID: <20071003160731.GA7113@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710031550490.28395@racer.site>

On 2007-10-03 16:27:49 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
>
> >   2. "push all branches" is the default, but the user intended to
> >      push only the current branch. She ends up pushing a superset
> >      of what she wanted, which is not easily fixed if she can't be
> >      sure that no one else has pulled from the public repo before
> >      she notices what's happened.
>
> But that is not the default. Not at all.
>
> The default is to push the refs which the remote and the local side
> have _in common_.

I know, and that's what I meant by "all branches". Sorry for the sloppy language.

> Maybe we should initialise the "remote.origin.push" variable to
> "completely-bogus-branchname" when you "git init --im-a-newbie"?

I'd rather have a suboptimal default than different defaults depending on user settings. (See also Junio's comment on that elsewhere in this thread.)

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